2nd UNICA Entrepreneurship Competition: finalists and winners

The final round of the Competition took place on Friday, 14 October from 09:00 a.m. to 12 p.m. in the Senate Hall of Tallinn University (Mare Building), Tallinn, Estonia.

The representatives of the three finalist teams were invited to present their business plans in a closed session in front of the jury of the competition.

The Award Ceremony of the 2nd UNICA Entrepreneurship Competition took place on Friday, 14 October from 14:30 – 16:00, in the University Aula of Tallinn University and counted the speeches of Ms. Simona Lascu, Vice-President of the European Confederation of Junior Enterprises, and Mr. Jürgo PREDEN, Chief Technology Officer of Defendec and Senior Researcher at Tallinn University of Technology.

The UNICA Entrepreneurship Competition for Students and Young Researchers awarded:

1st Prize (20,000€) to Sebastian Schulze and Asaf Moses from Humboldt Universität zu Berlin for the business plan "Upcload" (http://www.upcload.com/)
2nd Prize (10,000 €) to Philip Paar and Timm Depper from Freie Universität zu Berlin for their project "Laubwerk: Powerful 3D Plants Solutions for Architecture, Media, and Entertainment" (http://www.laubwerk.com/)
3rd Prize (5,000€) to Stavros Papastavrou, George Stylianou, and Demetrios Hadjiachilleos (University of Cyprus) for their business plan “VI Scientific: Mobile Vision Products for the Blind and Visually Impaired" (http://www.viscientific.com/)

Our warmest congratulations to the winners and our best wishes for their ongoing success!

UNICA thanks all the member Universities that took part in the Competition.